Long Irreparably Poems

By Stanley Collymore

At first I wasn’t in the least interested in you. 
But then, why should I be? You, after all, 
are an unmarried and out-of-work mum 
just turned 23 and, additionally and 
quite evidently...

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OOOPS! Contest
Sponsor: John Lawless

Date Written: February 29, 2016
FIRST POEM 

Somewhere between yes and no, where maybe doesn't matter, I slipped beneath the surface carrying your poor intentions. I suffered from those pitiable little private pieces...

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Biosphere's tropical respiratory rainforests are on the verge of extinction,
the exclusive reservoir of biodiversity, the Congo Basin is shrinking rapidly.

Deforestation dehydrates the caliginous evergreen region,
scorching heat changed the water cycle irreversibly.

Locking in scanty rainfall and...

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Not so long ago your heart was irreparably broken
You didn’t want to hear his name spoken
Your misery was so all-consuming -
And you were full of dooming and glooming -
That the threat of self-harm was bandied...

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Ice say... water we dew wing to planet Earth?

Tis appalling Homo sapiens legacy,
the future survival of species can ill afford
hence we must not dodge and dart away,
but heed urgent call to arms decree fiat,
lest vast...

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"Though my actions, sometimes selfish and oppressive on the surface, inevitably land myself in a pit of dispair, yet for those of my supposed oppressors, repeatedly reap a formidable benefit.
Now this is not to say...

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If I place my heart in your hand will you keep it safe for me? 
Will you cherish, love and protect it and treat it compassionately? 
I trusted another with its keep, once a long...

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TRUST
People say trust is 
	A two-way street
But I see trust 
	As chess pieces
Often manipulated
	To fit the needs
	Of the two players
The sad thing
	Is looking back
At the conclusion of each game
And see all the chess piece
	Casualties
When you...

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Precisely none says, what made  Humpty Dumpty famous;
Since 1872 famed, when printed in the book named
'Alice Through the Looking Glass' by writer,  Lewis Caroll showing it
in illustration as an egg,  portrayal which...

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Sometimes I need to hear
what straight white male dominant privilege
what systemic racism
what degenerative ungreen anthro-supremacism
what xenophobia and yin-repression
what homophobia sounds like hate
and smells sour and acrid and decaying

Before I can fully appreciate,
invest in,
and investigate what...

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Why would I do this
What was in my head
My charmed life of bliss
Perhaps irreparably dead?

Yes I'm a fighter
A grifter of old,
I deserve a fate brighter
But on this I've been rolled.

Politics such a foul game
They claim...

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Prostrated to such vastness,
unable to speak
I turned away
leaving fear standing
where I had come,
and the immense river entered
into those boundaries I had raised.

I watched the pale colors
wash away and disappear
as the water moved and swelled
and flooded...

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                           Not above the law no more Donald Trump
...

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When I closed the door one last time
                           ...

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My Future’s Past

“They” blame us for being the men, 
in a sense (innocent), “we’re meant to be”. When “They” are the ones.. 
Changing our destinies,
And rewriting our history. 
“They” blame us for the paths we...

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I have this feeling, 
Kinda excited, 
Little anxious. 
Body on edge, 
Sends my mind reeling. 
Can't stop smiling. 
Does he think of me I wonder? 
Bit of a fumbler. 
Blissfully daydreaming, 
That first kiss,
Hmmmm, 
Lips...

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Cool drops of water fall upon the rock
And slowly carve their way toward the sea
Much as existence, hastened by the clock,
Unfolds its wings, undaunted, soaring free. 

Strange fancies yearn to take their flight and leave
The...

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In the early light
I stole a spider's strand
From insect looms
In the fallen Eden by the back fence
 
Held it stretched 
Between the pads of my peter pointers
 
The sun ran up and down it
As a...

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Then an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.
—Luke 2:9 CSB

Little cherub with wee little wings.
Strawberries, crushed, enamor your cheeks
in Victorian fashion....

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Increasingly isolated amid dreadful psychological scenery
Socially discarded and culturally abused 
Exasperated loneliness coupled with vengeful anger 
against those deemed the unapologetic perpetrators 

Lacerations upon the mind 
beginning to become infected 
Irreparably scarring perspective 
as well...

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How is it possible to be so lost,
so completely damaged,
to be so far gone,
yet no one can see the truth?

Is my facade so damn impenetrable,
my smile that genuine,
do I deserve the academy award
because no one...

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He would mend and renew,
heal with glue, tack, and brush;
heads broken or blind
smiles cracked or erased, lips peeling.
Dolls bruised by too much love.

Some he brings back from dark places
their porcelain demons exorcised,
counter-curses sewn into scalp...

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She enters the room looking beyond her.  
Wordless; lost in sentiment and alone. 
But I am right here, always; forever. 
Mumbling sweetness, such words I wish to own. 
 
Refracted, immersed in intimation 
Irreparably known by defeated.   
Restless legs tapping intimidation. 
How long must...

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A few years into our exquisite 
courtship
my beloved soulmate Sweetie crowns me 

------ Silent Confidence

Aww, what a darling and delicious compliment!

My soul
             ...

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